My sleep cycle has shifted back to me needing more sleep but dream recall remains good. My dreams are odd, however, with strange visuals and symbolism present. This morning I woke with a sense that I should document what I could of my dreams.

Dream: Cleaning House and Spirit Encounter

In this dream I was surveying my house which looked to be a single story house in the suburbs. It felt like I had suddenly become aware of its poor condition, as if I had been away on a trip but in reality had just not noticed. I remember going through each room picking up clutter and rearranging things so that it looked more organized and less chaotic. The things I picked up were the normal things you would find in a house with children, nothing out of the ordinary like heaps of trash or dirt.

I remember going into the back yard and seeing part of the fence had a hole in it. I went around and picked up a piece of fence laying against the house and filled in the hole with it. My children were with me, helping, but I can’t remember much except telling them what to do. I heard noise in the front yard and saw a man with a mower and weed killer walking around. I remember thinking he was in the wrong yard and before I could say anything another man approached him, spoke to him and they both left. I looked at the condition of the front yard. It was full of weeds and overgrown but it didn’t bother me too much.

Then I was standing in the driveway. The road was caved in toward the center and the edges were crumbling. I remember thinking that the house must have been misrepresented to me when I purchased it and knew the driveway needed to be fixed immediately. I thought, “Looks like the house was built on a fault line.” I could see a crack extended into the garage.

Inside the garage I noticed tons of dried leaves littering the floor. I remember telling the kids that the leaves needed to be cleaned up. I said the season for leaves was over and they needed to be removed.

I walked into a patio area and was organizing some things when I noticed a single cell phone sitting on the chair. I thought that my MIL must have left it and went back to cleaning.

Out of the corner of my eye I saw movement.  I turned and saw a ghostly apparition floating into the front drive. She was tall with dark hair and wearing a blue-gray gown. I called out to her, “Hey! Who are you? Come back!” The ghost seemed to hear me and floated back toward me but then past me. I continued to yell at her to get her attention. When she didn’t seem to hear me, I picked up the cell phone and threw it at her. It went through her but she turned and came back toward me. I said, “What’s your name? My name’s Dayna.”

The ghost finally stopped and came toward me. She told me her name but I can’t remember it now. Then she began to talk to me about my children, muttering about their safety and obviously not in present time. I somehow knew she had been an alcoholic in her past life and had been drunk all the time, neglecting her children. The ghost was trapped, unable to continue on her journey to the Other Side. In an attempt to help her I said, “Maybe if you weren’t drunk all the time you could free yourself.” She looked me straight in the eyes then, as if she had heard me, and seemed apologetic. I reached toward her and grabbed onto her arm. When I felt it was solid I said, “Wow! It’s solid. I can feel you!” At the same time I could feel her emotions as if they were my own – sadness and regret.

Dream: Spider-Man

In this dream I was also cleaning but this time it was the living room. There was a sofa and behind it a washer and dryer. I remember talking to someone, saying it needed to be cleaned. I took a broom and began to sweep it back and forth behind the sofa. It captured cobwebs and spiderwebs full of dead bugs and very large spiders. It was large amounts as if there was an infestation. So I got out some bug spray and began to spray behind the sofa and in all the nooks and crannies around the washer and dryer. I remember saying, “Be careful. I stirred them up so there might be spiders around.”

As I sat on the sofa I saw a huge spider on the edge of a chair. I pointed it out and went to grab the bug spray. I sprayed it generously but it didn’t die right away. Instead if ran across to the sofa and then slowed and stopped just below the sofa. It was the largest spider I had ever seen! It also was quite grotesque looking. It resembled an ant but also a spider. It was reddish colored and the sections of its body made it look like a tiny man. It curled up as the poison took affect and died.

Across the room I spotted another similar spider and began to spray it. It also slowed, stopped and curled up in a ball to die.

After that I was a bit paranoid about there being more spiders. The spiders really creeped me out because of how they looked. I did not want one to crawl on me or bite me. I remember thinking they must be venomous to the point of deadly.

Curiosity took over eventually and I went to inspect one of the spiders. I decided I wanted to take a photo so got down real close to take a picture. That is when I saw it was not yet dead. The closer I got to it, the more it looked like a man until eventually I realized it was a man! The man had dark hair and was wearing a suit, like a space suit. I asked him, “Are you okay?” He looked up at me, his face burned in sections by the poison I had sprayed on him. He said, “I would be better if you stopped spraying that stuff on me!” I felt awful knowing I had tried to kill him and looked across at the other spider-man who was very obviously dead on the other side of the room.

The spider-man I was talking to slowly began to grow larger and larger until he was man-sized. He said he had to go and a circular craft of some sort surrounded him. He selected a spot in the room and began to drill down into the ground and disappeared. All he left behind was a gaping hole.

Interpretations

Both dreams involved me cleaning. The first was an entire house which is symbolic of current life personality and aspects of the self. The second is just about the living room which symbolizes the aspect of the self involving family connections. These dreams are just a small portion of the cleaning dreams I’ve been having lately indicating I’m in a healing phase.

The fence repair in the first dream indicates a break in boundaries that I am working to repair. It also represents the feeling of safety. I want to keep something out and keep my family safe inside. The garage represents a period of boredom, the leaves littering the inside symbolize depressed feelings and loss.

The driveway represents my access point to self or “home”. Its condition indicates I feel access is being interrupted and challenged. The fault line represents catastrophic change and a threat to my stability. The front yard being left with weeds shows that I am not concerned about what me and my situation looks like to others. I let it be “weeds and all”.

The ghost is likely a representation of me. The phone is communication. The situation the ghost is in indicates avoidance of the issue. Being drunk is that avoidance. The ghost is stuck because she is avoiding something.

The second dream feels very much like I am being reminded of my spiritual path. Spiders are symbolic of creativity as well. The fact that the spider looks like a man could be that I am associating my creativity and spiritual path with a man/masculine or that one of my guides took the opportunity to reveal himself and pass on a message via my inspection of the spider in the dream. He asks me to please stop poisoning him, which in itself indicates that I am trying to kill off something about myself to include my spiritual path, my creative side and all things spiders represent – growth, manifestation, choice. The fact that he then transforms to full height, gets into a circular craft and drills into the ground symbolizes that this part of myself is from my deep subconscious or past.